Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written - as long as I keep my senses, at least.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.

I can see that the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled.

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, I speak like a child.

What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought t…

He was not a man who prattled readily, especially in a foreign tongue. He gave the impression that each word was excavated from his interior by some up-to-date…